Baby Universes

I have these recurring dreams...  
Well, I should clarify, they're not necessarily recurring dreams per se, but rather, I have repeated dreams in similar locations.  

About 15 years ago, I started to notice that while I was dreaming, the settings, locales, I was dreaming about started to repeat from dream to dream.  Rather than how some people might have the same dream over and over, I'm having dreams that are occurring at the same locations over and over.  Different areas but the same settings repeatedly.  I'm not sure what it means but so far, I think there's a handful and I can describe them in great detail.  After all, I've visited these places dozens of times over the years.  

They've been so frequent, I just started referring to them as "Baby Universes."  They're entirely stand-alone locations, detached from reality.  Or in my case, my waking reality.  But they're very much real, that is to say, fleshed out and details that repeat each time.  And often, some of these locations are amalgamations of real-world locations I've visited.  And it's not as though I go into the dream state expecting to visit these locations.  I thought I'd finally write down these Baby Universes to give you an idea on what I'm talking about and what might I be dreaming about.  

1) The School - Despite visiting this universe countless times, I can't pin-point whether it's a high school or college.  Or if I'm even a student or working there.  I did work at the Community College for several years.  But it's also unlike any school I've ever attended myself.  There are hallways and classrooms I've been in.  Lecture halls or they could have been theaters used to lecture students in.  There's been flights of stairs and shop classes, an underground or lower level with rows of classes downstairs as well.  I have interacted with people in this space though.  But often as I'm giving them information, the others who are here rarely speak to me.

2) The Farm - The Farm location is always interesting when I drop in because it's the one I visit the least.  But it is definitely someplace out in the country.  There's an old-fashioned barn, pasture or field with crops.  Like wheat crops or something.  I don't recall seeing many animals outside of maybe a horse or mule, some livestock.  But there's never any people out at this site either.  

3) The Mansion -  This location is unusual in that, I've been only a few times and they were always very brief visits.  But what happens here has left me a funky state once I wake up out of it.  The Mansion is exactly that, some big home, not unlike you might see on the BBC or east-coast estates.  Big, dark wood paneling, heavy wooden railing along the stairs but most of the time, it's empty.  Just me, maybe one or two others, often strangers.  And then it's what happens in the Mansion that goes beyond the norm for even my dreams.  I've been able to become lucid in this Baby Universe.  I would come to realize that I'm in the middle of a dream and start to take it over.  I've gained the power of self-flight, which is the most bizarre feeling ever.  What would it be like to fly like a superhero?  I think I felt that within the Mansion.  I was playing around over the bannister and suddenly, I was floating, hovering.  I was only a couple of feet off the ground but within a few moments, I started to become lucid and then I really took over the dream and my flight ability.  And all I can recall from that is the sensation of falling.  In the Mansion, my ability to fly was making me feel as though I was just constantly falling.  A controlled fall, if you will.  But with forward, controlled motion.  That's about as best as I can describe the sensation.  Haven't been back there in a while but I wouldn't be against a return sometime.  

4) The Future World - This is always my most interesting destination and the one I've visited probably the second most.  I feel like I'm in some sort of megalopolis in the distant future.  Like how the 1920s imagined what the future would look like with endless high rises and high-speed rail lines crisscrossing between the buildings.  I've ridden on those subway-type vehicles a few times but there's also a high-speed foot transport, like a moving walkway you might see in an airport but at a much higher rate of speed and you have to step into these harnesses for your feet to hold you in place.  

5} Travel Town - I call this one Travel Town mostly because there's a depot or port (air or maritime) of some sort. I've flown to and from this airport, been in a plane that landed here or taken a bus to this terminal. I've been in the parking structure in cargo vans and limousines. I've taken off from here and landed at some amusement or water park in the Midwest. And I know it was the Midwest because of the grain silos. But the insides were ginormous and had water slides inside them. But again, there's a terminal or airport involved and I'm often coming or going. 

6) The Aquarium - Out of all the Baby Universes I've been to, the Aquarium is the one I've been to most often.  And while I call it an Aquarium, it could also be a water park like SeaWorld because in addition to the fish displays, there are aquatic shows with marine life.  I can practically draw a map of the Aquarium, I've been to it so often and the layout stays about the same every time.  There's always people there, either watching the shows or wandering around the hallways looking at the displays.  There's a show  room upstairs that I've never attended but I have been to the arena for the big show.  It wasn't a killer whale or even dolphin show, they were seals, or walruses. Once, there was an audience filing in and I took a seat next to dad one visit.  It was unusual in that, since he passed away, I've only dreamt of dad maybe 3 or 4 times but he was never in one of my Baby Universes.  And the funny thing is, while I sat next to him, I never once looked at him, didn't see his face at all.  I just knew it was him, that he was there.  I don't think we even spoke.  And with the way time works in a dream, we may have been sitting there for a few seconds to a few hours but afterwards, we just got up and kind of went our separate ways in the dream.